
“Police have refused to take court summons for a petition filed by Dr Kizza Besigye over his continued detention. Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago says that the DPC and OC CID refused to sign documents…” (Daily Monitor, 24.10.2017).
“Police investigating Besigye’s role in Rukungiri man’s death. The force is also holding, Dr Kizza Besigye, Ingrid Turinawe, Patrick Amuriat and a district councillor Innocent Tashobya on various charges including murder” (NTV Uganda, 24.10.2017).
As we speak there are uncertainty, but some knowledge that the Opposition leader and former Presidential Candidate Dr. Kizza Besigye is taken from Mukono and Naggalama Police Station. Where he has been detained since Thursday evening, together with Patrick Amuriat Oboi and Ingrid Turinawe. They have all been there on various charges and not allowed bonds or bail. They have all been put in vans earlier today and reported to be taken back to Rukungiri Magistrate Court. Who are prepared to file charges and send them directly to Luzira after the trial. The same is most likely happening in Luzira , where the magistrate court is prepared for a short trial, before putting them in Maximum Prison facility there. Somewhere Besigye was last year awaiting his treason charge, a case that is yet to processed and finished by the courts.
So Besigye are continued prosecuted and his freedoms are taken away. This together with his fellow opposition leader, the FDC Presidential Candidate POA and activist Ingrid Turinawe. They are all taken as high risk criminals and murderers. While they we’re only part of a peaceful rally and planning to continue the internal election of Presidential Election inside the FDC.
You know something is wrong when someone who was shot at while driving without weapons we’re able to kill and secondly, that someone who came in peace for a rally. Would kill with his car, when it was bullet wounds that killed the citizen. The one crime they are putting on Besigye. We all knows that the State feels the pain of their decision, since the state wouldn’t pay damages of 10 million shillings to the family of the deceased if they we’re innocent. That would just be foolish, they we’re trying to patch up their hurt. And would the IGP Kale Kayihura sack his DPC of Rukungiri, if he was innocent in his actions and his officers? Seemingly, their message and their arrest of Besigye doesn’t make common sense and the evidence against him must be fake or fraud, if they have any.
While I am saying this, the van has stopped and there are reports that Besigye is airlifted to Rukungiri. If you feel similar as he was last year, when he was airlifted from Moroto to Luzira. Most likely similar activity will happen from the state. Since they are acting with swift force and will make sure he can be locked-up in a Maximum Prison Facility that the Luzira has. This is to make sure he cannot spread his idea or his position towards stopping of the age limit. The NRM and Police wouldn’t act like this if they didn’t fear him and his popularity. They would have let him be and given him space. Instead, he is now taken and charged on forged charges.
This is the draconian state, he has been kept of 48 hours, the same with fellow opposition members. Who deserves as much justice as Besigye, but Besigye is the key suspect and key target of the state. They will make this ill accusation to make way to silence his efforts and take away his liberties and freedom. Even if they cannot even make a case in the wildest dreams. Still, this is a nightmare that continues, as the man of defiance will be behind bars. Just the length of it and how much it will cost this time. Is something we can question. As the state continue to torment him and torture him without any proper charges.
There are reports that some have planned to assassinate Besigye, I hope that will not happen. They already aimed very well in Rukungiri, as the back-window of his white van. The placing of the bullet is showing how much the police officer aimed last week. Therefore, the idea isn’t far fetched, but that Besigye is airlifted should be safe, even if there are reports in the past that President Museveni has used excuses and not released other news for sudden fall of airplanes and helicopters of his enemies. Like there are rumors of others Museveni has made fall this way. Therefore, if that would happen, we would know that ones in the past would his orders too.
We better hope that the people’s president is flying safe to Rukungiri and that the he will return safely as first reported. That they will forge a murder charge and stifle him in Luzira, as the Age Limit motion is soon flying high in Parliament. So that the NRM can kill the Constitution and make in the flesh of Museveni, instead of being document made for all citizens and not just for the President.
We just have to hope, it is enough hurt to again arrest and detain him without proper procedure and without caring about rule of law. There are new reports that the Judge at the Rukungiri Magistrate Court, does not want to rule in favor of the state. So he has run away from charging Besigye. This is happening right now.
We just have to wait and see. What will happen is certainly not anything positive because the state wishes Besigye and his comrades ill. We just have to wait. Peace.











